people in need to realize his personal value.他的离去很明显意味着,他拒绝走父母为他铺好的路而接受那个工作,因为他计划创造一个特殊的法律中介,特色是为有需要的人伸张正义,以此来实现自己的人生价值。
146.All of us should be grateful to what nature offers us, obey the natural laws, maintain the balance of nature and ban burning any harmful l substance and giving off carbon dioxide through the chimneys.我们应当用感激的心回报答自然的恩赐,遵守大自然的规律,维护生态平衡,禁止燃烧任何有害物质,严禁烟囱里释放二氧化碳。
147.As a mature professional manager, he will accomplish an urgent task in time, even though he is required to solve it in the period of his vacation, which means squeezing his leisure time and pausing his holiday.作为一名成熟的职业经理人,即使要求他在休假期间处理紧急任务,他都会及时完成,就算这意味着休闲时间被压缩,意味着休假被暂停。
148.The upset mother can’t stand receiving so many nasty bills that belong to her son because she has been disturbed by them since the son altered his address without sending a notice to the bank.那个忧心忡忡的母亲不能忍受收到他儿子这么多账单,因为自从她儿子换成了地址却没有通知银行,她一直被这些账单骚扰。
149.While the leader in business or industry or the college professor occupies a higher social position and commands greater respect in the community than the common labourer or even the skilled factory worker, he may take pains to point out that his father started life in America as a farmer or labourer of some sort.企业的领导或是大学教授拥有较高的社会地位,在社区,他们比普通工人,甚至是工厂技工更受人尊敬,但是,要说出自己的父亲在美国是农民或苦力出身会让他难堪。
150.While parents, particularly mothers, have always been attached to their infants, social conditions frequently made this attachment difficult to maintain.尽管家长,尤其是母亲总是和自己的婴儿联系在一起,但社会环境常常使这种联系难以维系。
151.In the professor’s view, it is totally nonsense that a man having a clear conscience dares to walk across the cemetery in view of a simple reason: having a clear conscience is irrelevant to having the courage to cross the cemetery.在这位教授看来,一个问心无愧的人敢于走过坟地的说法完全是乱说一通;因为一个很简单的理由:问心无愧与有胆量走过坟地是毫无关系的。 152.All the paper that you write with is made from trees which are cut down after spending years growing, so if the value of your writing doesn’t overtake that of the trees, then you’d better stop writing.所有供你写作的纸张都是由那些生长了好几年然后被砍倒的树木制成的,所以如果你的写作价值还不如这些树木的价值,那你最好还是放弃写作吧。
153.The careless dumb patient just glanced at the bottle, mistook the button in it for the pill and swallowed it with the boiled water, which is fortunately not fatal.这名粗心的愚钝病人仅仅瞄了下瓶子,错把里面的纽扣当成了药片,用开水服了下去,幸好不致命。
154.The pregnant cashier’s absence from the checkout in the chain store aroused the manager’s concern, and he substituted one for her in case the messy situation became worse.这位怀孕的收银员不在连锁店收银处的情况引起了经理的注意,他用另一名员工来代替她以防混乱的情况变得更糟。
155.In despair, the violent robbers dressed in prison uniforms with powerful weapons steered a jeep along the rough valley road when the police were tracing them, wanting to oblige them to give in before they fled to urban district in panic.当警方追踪这些穿着囚服携带强力武器的劫匪,想迫使他们在慌张地逃入市区前放弃抵抗之时,这些陷入绝望的粗暴的劫匪正沿着崎岖不平的山路驾驶着吉普车。